I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.
No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.
We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.
In all your getting, get understanding.
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?
I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.